I hope Burke turns his considerable intelligence and learning to a concrete account of how a Kantian vision can be realized and, when he does so, I believe he will realize that the dualistic contrast between "perpetual peace" and "perpetual war" is a chimera that ignores ambiguity, nuance, the smudginess of real human lives and history--the very things he accuses me of downplaying when they form the very background assumptions out of which I work.

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